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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst
From: |
Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:07:34 -0400 |
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Changes by: Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden> 03/09/18 09:07:34
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FutureVision : vision.rst
Log message:
start hyperstructure
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--- manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.91 Thu Sep 18 08:37:05 2003
+++ manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst Thu Sep 18 09:07:34 2003
@@ -207,9 +207,16 @@
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At the bottom of an item-centered computing environment,
-is the *network of items*.
-XXX
-
+is the *network of items*. This network is a **hyperstructure**,
+meaning that it allows an arbitrary number of data structures
+to add information about an item through bidirectional connections.
+For example, an address book structure may give
+a person's name and e-mail, while a genealogy structure might
+give their parents, children, and spouses.
+
+Hyperstructure may be implemented in many ways. In this section,
+we present zzstructure and RDF, two hyperstructures actually used
+in systems aiming at the goals we have described above
[#databases-as-hyperstructure]_.
.. In this section, we shall attempt to define what we mean by the word
"hyperstructure",
as used e.g. in the name of the First Hyperstructure Workshop at XXX.
@@ -776,6 +783,12 @@
characters, in turn, would be connected to your notes
about them, in this case the idea about how to develop
one of them.
+
+.. [#databases-as-hyperstructure] Hyperstructure might also be
+ implemented, for example, as a relational database,
+ with individual data structures being represented as tables.
+ This would necessiate a system where users could add
+ new tables at any time, without hazzle.
.. [#zzstructure-rdf] RDF and zzStructure are actually closely
related: zzStructure is obtained if a RDF graph is constrained
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst,
Benja Fallenstein <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18